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Loop skyline from Grant Park railroad yards
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View toward North Michigan Avenue and Loop skyscrapers from the Grant Park railroad yards (where Millennium Park is now located). 35 East Wacker Drive (originally Jewelers Building) is at the upper left.
Date:
1968
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Lakefront at East Monroe Street
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Aerial view looking east at Chicago Harbor, the Chicago Yacht Club, and Lake Michigan. East Monroe Street is visible on the lower right.
Date:
1972
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Grant Park railroad yards and Loop buildings
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View from the railroad yards in Grant Park toward Michigan Avenue and Loop high-rise buildings. At the left behind the trees is the Michigan Avenue National Bank Building (Michigan Boulevard Building), with the Chicago Public Library (Chicago Cultural Center) next to it to the right. Behind that is the United Insurance Building (1 E. Wacker).
Date:
1975; 1914 (Michigan Avenue National Bank Building); 1962 (United Insurance Building)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Auditorium building from Grant Park railroad yards
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View towards the Auditorium building and adjacent Michigan Avenue buildings from over the railway yards in Grant Park.
Date:
1972; 1889 (Auditorium Building)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Hubbard Street Railway Yard and Near North Side
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View from the Hubbard Street Yard of the Chicago & North Western Railway, with the Near North Side skyline beyond. On the left is the John Sexton Building, then a warehouse but now condominiums. Behind that is the John Hancock Center.
Date:
1970; 1917 (John Sexton Building); 1969 (John Hancock Center)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Loop skyscrapers from railroad yards
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View northwest from the railroad yard where Millennium Park is now located, toward Michigan Avenue and Loop skyscrapers. The Michigan Avenue National Bank Building (Michigan Boulevard Building) is visible at the left, with the Chicago Cultural Center next to it. The towers of the United Insurance Building (1 East Wacker Drive), 35 East Wacker Drive (Jewelers Building) and the Carbide & Carbon Building stand out among the group of Loop skyscrapers in the distance.
Date:
1968
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Michigan Avenue from railroad yards in Grant Park
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View of the Michigan Avenue "streetwall" from the railway yards in Grant Park. Illinois Central railway cars are in the foreground. The Congress Hotel is in the distance, and the Auditorium Building is next to it to the right.
Date:
1972
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Michigan Avenue "streetwall" from Grant Park railroad yards
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View of the Michigan Avenue "streetwall" from the railroad yard in Grant Park. In the center are the Gage Group buildings and Willoughby Tower.
Date:
1971; 1890-1899 (Gage Group); 1929 (Willoughby Tower)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
South Michigan Avenue from railroad yards
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View of the Michigan Avenue "streetwall" seen from across railway land near Madison Street. The Smith, Gaylord, and Cross Building (20 N. Michigan Avenue), is on the far right. The McCormick Building (332 South Michigan Avenue) is the last high-rise visible on the left. The Mid-Continental Plaza (55 East Monroe Street) rises behind these Michigan Avenue buildings.
Date:
1984
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access

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Geographic Location: Loop (Chicago, Ill.)   Subject Topic: Railroad yards   Remove all